This’ll put some extra flavor into your cooking: Penzeys Spices, whose recipe-filled catalogs always send me on flights of imagination while thinking of what I’d make with Ceylon cinnamon or zatar, is opening a store in Crossgates Mall in Guilderland. The help-wanted ad is here. A mall spokeswoman estimated an opening in late March or […]
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The new Albany restaurant Mingle has received its liquor license and will allow customers to bring in wine and beer for consumption with their meals today through Saturday, co-owner Jose Filomeno tells me. There will be no corkage fee this week. Alcohol sales will begin next week, when the restaurant reopens on Tuesday (12/27). The […]
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The chef Un-Hui Filomeno, right, who earned a large fan base at the Albany restaurants Avenue A and, before that, The Ginger Man, is developing a new restaurant called Mingle, projected to open in November at the former Avenue A location at 544 Delaware Ave. She will be chef-owner, in partnership with her son, Jose, […]
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will host its 13th annual Capital Sip Beer and Food Tasting event from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 235 Hoosick St., Troy. There will be local microbrews and other craft beer, food from area restaurants, live music and a silent auction. Tickets are $30 […]
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Local chef Brian Molino, who recently left The Brown Derby in Albany to run food service at Golub Corp. headquarters in Schenectady, has “adopted” Voorheesville Central Schools as part of the Chefs Move to Schools initiative, run by the federal Department of Agriculture. He will work with the district’s existing farm-to-school effort to incorporate healthful […]
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Capital District Farmers Market in Menands is hosting a chili cookoff on Saturday (9/24). It is free to enter; participants need only show up when the market opens at 9 a.m. with chili i n a slow cooker. Market shoppers may sample all chili for only $1 and vote for their favorite. Trophies will be […]
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